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Favorite Film Scientists?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that-wacky-bunch-from-real-genius dept.

theodp asks: "From Rotwang in Fritz Lang's Metropolis to Wallace the Engineer in last year's Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Slate notes that scientists have long been a staple of the movies. So who are some of the more memorable scientist characters from your movie-going?"

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  1. Only one choice for me... by Mindwarp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ..Cristopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy.

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  2. Easy by eronysis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dr. Strangelove of course

  3. No contest by afree87 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Doc Brown:

    "If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit."

    Let's hear another scientist top that quote.

  4. Re:Favorite Scientists by captn+ecks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dr Strangelove, of course. Although he was more of a 'political' scientist... "Mein Furher! I can walk!"

  5. Hard to pick just one... by rampant+mac · · Score: 5, Insightful
    So I have to pick three:

    Dr. Peter Venkman
    Dr. Raymond Stantz
    Dr. Egon Spengler

    :)

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